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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Thomas C. White who wrote (3237)	2/13/1997 5:16:00 PM
From: Rambi	of 108807

You'll never get me to admit Mozart was mindless or emotionless. He was the apex of classicism and next to Bach I believe the greatest composer who ever lived. He also wrote wonderful coluratura arias, so perhaps I'm prejudiced! And he did recognize the traps of the form. Beethoven actually is a Classical composer whose style changed a great deal throughout his life and led into the Romantic movement, but he technically isn't a Romantic, certainly not at the beginning of his career. The emotion of his music sometimes obscures the form, I think. I'm not much of a Wagner fan--he's too uncontrolled for me! It makes perfect sense that you're Eurocentric in your musical preferences. I am, too and I think it's because I grew up in the formal classical pianist mold and that's what I love. I can't stand the Modernists unless they tend toward lyricism, like Barber. Although I once was so moved listening to Paderecki's (sp?) 'Hiroshima' that I forgot to pick up my children from daycare. I would love to hear a gamelan orchestra. Where were you? Aren't they mostly in Bali or Java? There's supposed to be a slow theme with variations. Is it so different that you can't pick it out? You have seen so many wonderful things!!!!

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